/ee-dry-example

Example templates illustrating DRY approach when building ExpressionEngine site.

ExpressionEngine DRY Example

Example templates illustrating a DRY/MVC/Partial (name your poison) approach when building an ExpressionEngine site.

These files are to support Episode 68 of the EE Podcast, "DRY+EE w/John Rogerson."

For the original article on Template Partials see John D Wells' Homegrown plugin to create template "partials" for ExpressionEngine. The Stash plugin is available from devot:ee.

These files are provided to give those interested a working but rudimentary and high level conceptual example of achieving both DRY + MVC nirvana in your EE templates. At least that's my interpretation. YMMV.

There are 3 templates:

  1. index.html (Logic template for homepage)
  2. page.html (Logic template for interior page)
  3. view.html (View template for all pages)

There are 4 snippets:

  1. sn_channel_markup.html (View Snippet for exp:channel:entries output)
  2. sn_head.html (Snippet for <head>)
  3. sn_header.html (Snippet for <header>)
  4. sn_footer.html (Snippet for <footer>)

Note: Snippets 2 thru 4 are unnecessary in this particular example, as we only have one "view" template, but are included for clarity.